The European Commission has opened a call for tenders for up to seven AI 'gigafactories' across the bloc, a €30bn push to reduce Europe's dependence on US and Chinese computing power. Up to €10bn will come from EU and na…
OpenAI has cut pricing on GPT-5.6 by 25–30% across input and output tokens, responding to enterprise pushback against high AI costs. The reduction targets production workloads where per-token burn rates had driven teams …
American Express Global Business Travel launched the Egencia AI connector in Anthropic's Claude on July 28, 2026, enabling travelers and enterprise AI agents to search, book, and manage policy-compliant air and hotel tra…
Questrade unveiled an MCP connection and conditional trade automation at a July 29 product showcase in Toronto, allowing customers to connect brokerage accounts to Claude or Claude Code for portfolio queries and order dr…
AI is separating linguistic authorship (the words themselves) from cognitive authorship (the judgment and reasoning behind them), argues a Psychology Today article. The author notes that large language models can produce…
A non-expert assessment of AIFP's Plan A compute verification section finds that removing the backend network and imposing per-rack bandwidth limits on the frontend network could slow training by 10x or more, but the eff…
Cardinal launched an AI revenue platform on Thursday, pivoting from its earlier document-intelligence API to an outbound sales automation product that covers prospect discovery, personalized messaging, multichannel outre…
Meta reported a 91 percent drop in second-quarter free cash flow to $784 million, down from $8.55 billion a year earlier, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s AI spending spree continues to strain finances. The company revealed near…
Minotaur Books canceled a $2.5 million contract for a crime novel by a young Black author, alleging AI was used in its creation, a claim the author denies. The cancellation was first reported by Jeff Sneider on his Subst…
A user on Hacker News claims to have obtained the system prompt for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model, sharing a link to a Claude conversation as evidence. The post has garnered 17 points and 13 comments on the platform.
Google is preparing to let users add website links as sources to notebooks inside the Gemini app, according to an APK teardown by Android Authority. The update also includes a new Students section for creating study note…
A Circle K customer says an AI-powered self-checkout kiosk added an $8.5 billion donation to the American Red Cross to their hot dog order, according to a Reddit post. The shopper shared a photo showing the charge alongs…
Friend, the AI startup founded by Avi Schiffmann, has released Friend 2.0, a $249 AI pendant with a built-in speaker that responds in a mechanical voice, nearly double the price of the original. The company's marketing, …
Okta announced Thursday it has signed a deal to buy Permiso Security, a cloud-based firm specializing in identity threat detection and response, to merge real-time threat detection with identity security posture manageme…
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund founded by 24-year-old former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner that focused on artificial intelligence bets, has sold most or all of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Ci…
A developer created an open-source program to find the person with the funniest name by checking if first and last names are valid English words, using a dataset of nearly 500 million names from Facebook and WordNet for …
Redwood Research finds that hint-based chain-of-thought faithfulness evaluations still work on Claude models, contradicting Anthropic system card claims that recent models no longer use hints. The replication study shows…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior officials have repeatedly called for international cooperation on AI governance, warning that AI could escape human control and urging the creation of a global regulatory fra…
A developer's RE-call memory system, which never calls an LLM, scores lower on temporal reasoning (0.408 vs. 0.567) than Mem0 on the BEAM benchmark, but avoids any LLM cost and keeps data in Postgres. The trade-off is th…
OpenAI released guidance on trustworthy third-party evaluations, arguing that benchmark scores are measurements of a model in a particular setup, not fixed capability ceilings. The company says harnesses, budgets, tools,…